"[Your question] presupposes that Jehovah's Witnesses have some sort of spy network to monitor [members who intentionally have become 'inactive" and have sought to 'fade away' without being 'disfellowshipped' or being forced to 'disassociate'], which we don't. ... ... we don't run a police state where we go and try and force people to follow our beliefs." -- Jehovah's Witnesses Governing Body Member Geoffrey Jackson's sworn testimony before Australia's Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses To Child Sexual Abuse, August 14, 2015. (Edited for clarity. Emphasis ours.) "Thanks" goes out to Geoffrey Jackson for this public statement which immediately motivated us to research and build these two webpages.

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These two WATCHTOWER SOCIETY SPIES & SECRET AGENTS webpages will give visitors to our TWO SISTER WEBSITES a better understanding of the "behind the scenes" workings of the WatchTower Cult and its local Congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses, as well as a greater appreciation for certain posted court cases and other cases -- particularly those cases posted on our BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY webpage, which includes incidents of SPYING by Jehovah's Witnesses not included on this page.

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For nearly as long as the internet has existed, from around the world, there have been anecdotal internet postings of alleged instances of clandestine spying and surveillance of both former and current Jehovah's Witnesses conducted by Jehovah's Witness Elders and Ministerial Servants -- which gives credibility to the belief that such a sneaky, underhanded, and often illegal practice has been secretly promoted for decades by WatchTower Society World Headquarters.

However, credible reports of clandestine spying and surveillance of both former and current Jehovah's Witnesses conducted by Jehovah's Witness Elders and Ministerial Servants, and even by other rank-n-file members, predates the internet by several decades. Despite Governing Body Member Geoffrey Jackson's sworn public denial of the existence of a "spy network", author David Manwaring, who studied the WatchTower Cult during the 1950s, noted in his 1962 book, Render Unto Caesar: The Flag Salute Controversy, "The [Watchtower Society] national office has an extremely efficient surveillance network capable of quickly seeking out and punishing any [Jehovah's] Witness lagging in his work or his faith."

In February 1978, The Melbourne Sunday Press published an article entitled, "Sect Split on Spy Claims: Rebels Hit 'Big Brother Society'", in which WatchTower Cult dissidents exposed the Cult's even-by-then decades-old practice of spying on its members, while a WatchTower spokesperson flatly denied that internal spying occurred. Referring to the "WatchTower Society"as the "Big Brother Society", the newspaper quoted one former JW who claimed that "Jehovah's Witnesses have a spy network that would 'make the KGB and the CIA look like amateurs.'" Another quoted dissident alleged that "it was not uncommon for church 'spies' to watch members' homes, interrogate neighbours, or follow them in their cars."

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In the 1999 Australian Court of Appeal - Western Australia case, QUEEN v. DEREK NEIL SMEDLEY, which was the criminal prosecution of an Australian Jehovah's Witness Elder for CHILD MOLESTATION, there is actual testimony from the JW Elder's victim -- his teenage step-daughter -- that that JW Elder once took his step-daughter along on such a clandestine spying and surveillance of a "recently expelled member", and that that JW Elder sexually fondled his step-daughter to pass the otherwise boring time.

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In the 2009 Australian Family Court of Australia case, BEARD v. McCARTHY, which was a child custody court case, the Jehovah's Witness Ex-Husband was found on multiple occasions to have stalked, surveilled, and videotaped his Ex-Wife and a man that JW Ex-Husband believed to be Ex-Wife's boyfriend. TELLINGLY, that Court records that on at least one of those spying and surveillance missions that JW Ex-Husband had been accompanied by one of the ELDERS from JW Ex-Husband's local Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Here in the United States, prior to the cellphone age, Jehovah's Witness Elders are known to have secreted audio recording devices on their person or in their briefcases when performing "shepherding calls" in the private homes of JW members. (Confirmation goes to FIRST GILEAD CLASS MEMBER and former WatchTower Foreign Missionary Justin Oehling for privately confessing his complicity with another JW Elder in such an ILLEGAL incident, and asking for forgiveness prior to his death.)

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In the early 2000s, a former JW then claiming to live in California, who further claimed to have once been employed by one of the internet's larger Email Service Providers, publicly alleged a lengthy scenario during which a Jehovah's Witness official -- higher than local rank -- had once privately approached him and inquired whether he was familiar with the September 1, 1987 WATCHTOWER article, "'A Time to Speak' -- When?". The Jehovah's Witness official allegedly then produced a photocopy of that WATCHTOWER article and proceeded to discuss such with the "spin" that loyal Jehovah's Witnesses had a duty to help fight against "Jehovah's enemies", even if such put their employment in jeopardy. Former JW also alleged that JW official's ancillary comments also seemed to indicate that this was not an isolated contact and conversation, but rather that similarly employed Jehovah's Witnesses across the United States were being identified and approached for a discussion on the content of that article.

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In 2012, a former Jehovah's Witness living in a foreign country, who is/was employed by an Internet Service Provider (ISP), has publicly alleged that he was once approached by that country's WatchTower Society officials who requested that he provide them with documentation of certain private internet activities of a fellow Jehovah's Witness.

Several of the employment cases posted in our JW EMPLOYEES website include instances of JW Employees secretly tape recording Employers and Co-workers, including three cases HERE.

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In 1987, Greece law enforcement authorities arrested and successfully prosecuted a staff member from the Greece Branch Headquarters of the WatchTower Society along with an Elder from one of the local Athens, Greece Congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses, after those two WatchTower Cult Leaders were caught secretly surveilling a private religious meeting held at the private home of a former member. The following [edited] excerpt is taken from former GOVERNING BODY MEMBER Raymond Franz's account of those events, which Franz published in his second and last book, IN SEARCH OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM:

About 1986, the [Greek] branch office of the Watch Tower Society, located in the Athens [Greece] area, began applying intense pressure on [Jehovah's] Witnesses who gave any indication of not being in total agreement with [WatchTower Society] organizational teachings and policies. The number of those disfellowshiped evidently reached more than a hundred. Others simply ceased association quietly. In an interest to maintain [their] spirituality, some of these [former members] began to meet with others for Bible reading and discussion in private homes. This, too, was done quietly and without fanfare. The Greek [WatchTower Society] branch office, however, manifested an extreme concern to seek out and take action against any doing so. This in time introduced some remarkable measures and led to a court case described in the portions of an Athens newspaper ... . This is what happened:

On Tuesday, April 6, 1987, a group of about 50 persons gathered at the home of Nick and Eftihia Bozartzis for Bible discussion. From his balcony Nick noticed two men standing across the street watching the individuals entering his home, some of whom had not formally withdrawn from the [WatchTower] organization. Recognizing one of the two observers as a [Jehovah's] Witness, [Nick] went down to speak to them, but as soon as he appeared on the street level they literally ran off. Within days, three of those attending the gathering were "disfellowshiped" by elders in judicial hearings.

On Friday, others normally went to the home of Voula Kalokerinou, a former [Jehovah's] Witness, but since they planned to gather for the celebration of the Lord's [Evening Meal] on Sunday, their gathering on Friday, April 9, was canceled. That Friday evening, however, Voula noticed a car with five persons inside parked across the road from her house, and the car and its occupants remained there for hours. The next evening the same. ...

The following Sunday, April 11, [1987,] a number of persons went to Voula's home to commemorate the [Lord's Evening Meal]. [Voula Kalokerinou] noticed an unfamiliar car parked across the road on one corner and a van parked on the other corner. The rear window of the van was covered over with paper but with a hole cut in the center of the covering material. The occupants of the car crossed over to the van several times, talking with those inside it. Voula asked [a male visitor] who had come to her home to find out why the cars were parked there. When he approached the car, those inside quickly drove off. He then went to the rear of the van and looked in through the hole of the material covering the rear window. Inside he saw video camera equipment being used by two [Jehovah's] Witnesses -- an elder named Nikolas Antoniou, and a member of the Athens Watch Tower branch office staff, [named] Dimetre Zerdes. A number of others from Voula's home came over to the van and a policeman stationed at the nearby Italian Embassy also appeared to find out what the problem was. The [Jehovah's] Witnesses in the van managed to drive through the surrounding group and drove to a nearby park where they began quickly unloading their video equipment. They were interrupted by the arrival of two police cars and were arrested on charges of "invasion of privacy". The video equipment was confiscated. The film in it showed Mrs. Kalokerinou's home and zoom shots of the front entrance with closeups of all those entering.

Before the District Attorney, the two [Jehovah's Witnesses -- Nikolas Antoniou and Dimetre Zerdes --] stated that they were only there to film a relative of Dimetre Zerdes, the Watch Tower branch office member. His cousin, Eftihia Bozartzis, mentioned earlier, had "disassociated" herself two years before. As a "loyal" [Jehovah's] Witness, [WatchTower Society] branch office member [Dimetre Zerdes] should have had no [further dealings] with [Eftihia Bozartzis] -- he certainly should not have had any reason for wanting to film her secretively two years after her"disassociation".

The case eventually came to trial. In his presentation at the close of the trial, the District Attorney, Mr. Kontaxis, stated:

"I don't think there is any Christian organization that tells its members to tell lies, but when the defendant and his organization does so, I would want them to accept the responsibility and say, "Yes, we did spy." And if an organization did such a thing then how can it expect others to follow it? They had and used special equipment with witnesses seeing them filming, and yet the defendant comes along and says he didn't do it to spy but just to film. All this doesn't honor either the defendant or the organization to which he belongs.

"We are all free to belong to any organization we want, but we are also free to leave that organization and do whatever we want within the bounds of the law.... Does a person's leaving, abandoning the organization, give it the right to follow and spy on its members? One is protected by law against cassettes, tape recorders, filming, when such are used to pry into one's personal life and personality. This comes under CONFIDENTIALITY and is protected by it in such cases, and that includes one's private convictions. This is very serious. Obviously the defendants were trying to cryptograph the private life of the plaintiffs by using video equipment, and this purposely, not by chance.

"The Watch Tower Society, by teaching it is the 'Ark,' and that one must enter it to be saved, by teaching it is God's channel, creates tremendous dependency on its members and thus [they] are directed to do everything to threaten and trample all that we call human rights."

In the course of the trial, one of the judges asked the [Jehovah's] Witness elder, the owner of the van, how long he and the [WatchTower Society Branch Office Member] had been stationed in the van that day. The answer was, six hours. When asked if the windows of the van were clear, the elder said, No, that the back window was covered with paper with a hole in the center through which they had done filming with the video cassette camera. He claimed that all this was solely to film his [accomplice's] relative. The confiscated film showed zoom shots of many persons at the house's front entrance and on its balcony. But the relative did not appear anywhere on the film. Actually she could not have appeared - for the simple reason that she was never at the gathering! The court rendered a guilty verdict in the case.

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Author Barbara Grizzuti-Harrison grew up in Queens and Brooklyn in NYC and was baptized as a Jehovah's Witness when she was only 9 years-old. In 1953, when Barbara was 18 years-old, she went to work at WatchTower Cult HQ as a "Bethelite", where as one of only 45 females she got to know many of the top WatchTower Cult officials, including President Nathan Knorr. Two and a half years of mundane duties including "proofreading" WatchTower literature was all that the "genius" could stand. Grizzuti left "Brooklyn Bethel" and became "inactive". In 1960, Barbara married Dale Harrison, who worked for the international humanitarian relief organization C.A.R.E.(Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere), and during the next 8 years, the Harrisons lived and worked on four continents -- in Guatemala, Libya, India, and Italy. In each of those foreign countries, Barbara befriended WatchTower Bible School of Gilead Missionaries who soon came knocking at her door. In 1968, the Harrisons divorced, and Barbara and her two children returned to live in NYC, where, as Barbara related in her 1978 book, VISIONS OF GLORY: A HISTORY AND A MEMORY OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, (edited):

On Christmas Day, 1968, a member of the Watchtower headquarters staff rang my doorbell and asked, "Are you Connie Grizzuti's daughter who used to be associated with the Lord's sheep?" ... "It has come to our attention,"the man said, "that in 1963 you were observed making obeisance in the Shiva temple in Warangal, India. You are also known to have made the sign of the cross while passing a Roman Catholic Church in Guatemala City. These are grounds for disfellowshipping. If you can prove, before a group of elders, that you are innocent of the charges, disfellowshipping charges can be halted. If we remain convinced of your guilt, you may be reinstated in the Lord's organization if you beg forgiveness. If we judge you guilty and you do not confess, you will be disfellowshipped. If you refuse to appear before the elders, you will be automatically disfellowshipped."

... I said, "Wouldn't it be redundant to disfellowship me? After all, I left ten years ago of my own accord." He said, "But you can't leave. You can never leave us. We can expel you. But you, having been baptized into The Truth, are one of us until we say you're not."

I declined ... to appear before the elders. ... They did not disfellowship me; I don't know why. ... In any case, I was left to wonder if they had SPIES who followed former [Jehovah's] Witnesses around the world to collect evidence. It was not until 1974 that I was paid another official visit.

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As related in his 1984 book, The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses, in 1961, at the age of 18, child prodigy-genius, world traveler, and already WatchTower insider, Gary Botting, then moved to Hong Kong to "pioneer" and become the"Congregation Servant" of the English-speaking Jehovah's Witness community in Hong Kong. Not long after moving into the Hong Kong Branch Office of the WatchTower Society, Botting reports that the "Assistant Branch Servant", named Kenneth Gannaway, ordered Botting to SPY on the Branch's two Chinese translators, who themselves were recent graduates of theWatchTower Bible School of Gilead. The WatchTower Branch administration reportedly was concerned about the non-watchtower books which the two Gilead Missionaries were suspected to be reading and were possibly affecting their work. Botting relates that one of those two Gilead graduates, Daniel Ng, was in fact reprimanded based on Botting's surveillance.

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Over the past decades, literally tens of thousands of former Jehovah's Witnesses across the planet who have attempted to voluntarily leave the WatchTower Cult quietly and without fanfare, but without formally filing official notice of their"disassociation" with their local Congregation (sometimes referred to as "fading"), have found themselves and their family members HUNTED DOWN and STALKED by not only Elders and Ministerial Servants from their former Congregation, but even by JW family members, JW friends, and other rank-n-file Jehovah's Witnesses. Even "faders" who have purposely relocated to other cities, other counties, and other states in an attempt to escape such HARASSMENT, have been stalked by Jehovah's Witness Elders living in that new locale after the Body Of Elders at their former Congregation had uncovered their new address, and had reported such to the BOE in the "faders" new locale.

In her autobiography, Awakening Of A Jehovah's Witness, Diane Wilson documented the extremes to which Jehovah's Witness "Secret Agents" will go to demonstrate to dissidents that the WatchTower Cult governs their lives until the Cult decides otherwise. Diane Wilson and her JW Elder Husband were the parents of a son and a daughter who both had become baptized Jehovah's Witnesses when they were teenagers. However, in 1989, around her 17th birthday, Diane's daughter informed Diane that she "planned to leave home and [leave] her life as a [Jehovah's] Witness" on her 18th birthday -- a threat which that daughter did in fact keep in 1990. During the following year, Elders from the Wilson's Congregation repeatedly and relentlessly attempted by all possible means of communication -- telephone, mail, etc. -- to contact the Daughter and force her to meet with them and disclose to them how and with whom she was now living her life.

In 1991, Diane and her JW Elder Husband went on a vacation to Hawaii, and as was their custom, they paid a fellow Jehovah's Witness Male who had grown up in their Congregation to take care of their house, garden, mail, etc. while they were gone. This young JW Male had been friends with both the Wilson's son and daughter, and he had spent much time at the Wilson home, including overnight visits.

The Wilson's local BOE decided to take advantage of this situation to trick the Wilson's daughter into coming to her parent's home, where the BOE planned to position its "Secret Agents" to AMBUSH and ILLEGALLY DETAIN the Daughter. The BOE enlisted the JW house-sitter to telephone the Daughter and LIE TO HER about a non-existent "problem" at the Wilson's home with which he required the Daughter's help. The house-sitter purposefully asked Daughter to meet him at the Wilson's homeafter it had turned dark. That night, three JW "Secret Agents" arrived early -- HIDING themselves in three different spots around the Wilson's yard so that they could be certain to be able to quickly physically accost the Daughter regardless of where she parked her car. At the agreed time, the Daughter's car arrived and parked on the street in front of the Wilson's home. As the young female driver exited and walked up the pathway to the Wilson's front door, the three WatchTower Cult "Secret Agents" sprung their TRAP -- only to be surprised that they were physically accosting in the dark a young female whom they did not know. The Daughter had sent a female friend in her place, whom the Daughter had warned that such an AMBUSH and TRAP should be expected.

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In 1980, John Higgins was an Elder in the Port Moody Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, in British Columbia, Canada. Around the time that Olga Higgins delivered their second child, the Higgins began to disagree with certain WatchTower Society beliefs and practices (possibly related to blood transfusions). The Higgins eventually decided that the WatchTower Society did not have "the truth", and that they no longer wanted to be "Jehovah's Witnesses". However, the Higgins also decided that they wanted to fade out of the religion with the least amount of hoopla as possible. They did not wish to be "disfellowshipped", nor did they wish to "disassociate" themselves. John stepped down as an Elder, and the Higgins gradually ceased performing "field service", and ceased attending all meetings. The Higgins simply hoped that they would just be left alone.

Having been a Congregation Elder, John Higgins likely knew better. John Higgins also likely knew that Congregation Elders were secretly encouraged to surveil "faders" like he and his family -- especially given his former position in the local congregation. Thus, even though the Higgins Family had not attended a Kingdom Hall Meeting in over one year, it should have been no surprise when, on a Sunday morning in the summer of 1982, the Higgins spotted what appeared to be two individuals hiding in some bushes located on the playground adjacent to their home. John Higgins grabbed his camera, slipped out of his home, and circled around behind the two "spies", who turned out to be two Elders, who also had a camera, plus binoculars. Higgins took a photograph of them as "evidence" of their surveillance, and then asked what did they think they were doing. It was rather obvious that the two Elders were hoping to a get a photograph of a dressed-up Higgins Family getting in their automobile and going to church on that Sunday morning.

If embarrassed, the two Elders did not show such. In fact, those two Elders formed a Judicial Committee, along with two other Elders. John Higgins was ordered to attend a "hearing" of that Judicial Committee. At that hearing, John Higgins again confronted the two Elders whom he had caught red-handed spying on he and his family. Higgins asked those four Elders by what authority did they have the right to spy on he and his family?

One Elder responded, "If a man doesn't come to the meetings, wouldn't you be concerned about where he was going on Sundays? Wouldn't you want to find out what he was doing?"Another Elder continued, "Where are you going? What are you doing for spiritual nourishment? Are you meeting anyone? What are you doing, because you use to have a routine and come to the Kingdom Hall ... ?"

John Higgins refused to answer their questions. Despite the fact that John Higgins voluntarily had ceased participating in any WatchTower functions more than a year previous, and despite the fact that the Judicial Committee had zero evidence to "convict" Higgins on any charge worthy of his being disfellowshipped, that is exactly what the four satanists decided to do. Such proves that the WatchTower Society is actually a Nazi fascist organization with its own Gestapo and SS elements.

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International Law Enforcement should NEVER discount or dismiss reports of "stalking" or "surveillance" committed by Jehovah's Witness Elders or Ministerial Servants based solely on the fact that the person reporting such "stalking" or"surveillance" has not attended their local Kingdom Hall, nor otherwise associated with the WatchTower Cult, for many weeks, months, or even years.

In 2015, we received a report from a "Reliable Source" of his being "stalked" by a JW Elder while "RS" was driving to church. As background, "Reliable Source" was a born-in Jehovah's Witness who formally never was "disassociated" nor"disfellowshipped", but who last attended his local Kingdom Hall 18 YEARS AGO -- where RS's only active relative is a 75 year-old mentally ill Aunt. RS has experienced no unwelcomed "shepherding calls" to his home since the last one which occurred13 YEARS AGO, on Christmas Morning, when RS angerly "trespassed" this same JW Elder and the then visiting WatchTower Circuit Overseer. NINE YEARS AGO, RS told this same STALKING JW ELDER to his face that RS occasionally had been attending another local church over the previous two years. All other local Jehovah's Witnesses have known for 9 YEARS that RS disavows the WatchTower Cult and occasionally attends other local churches. Now, 18 YEARS, after last setting foot inside the local Kingdom Hall, RS currently irregularly attends a different "country church".

On a recent Sunday morning, while driving the 5 or so miles to that isolated, rural "country church", RS noticed that a Mini-Van had followed him all the way through town, past the local Kingdom Hall, and then out of town -- which would speed up OR slow down depending on whatever it took to maintain a 800-1000 foot distance back from RS's vehicle. Although it was by then only 10 minutes until the Kingdom Hall meeting started back in town, RS was still confident that he was being "tailed" by a JW Elder -- assumedly so that that JW Elder could discover IF and WHERE RS was currently attending some other church. After going over a hill which blocked the line of sight between the two vehicles, RS made a quick turn-around and drove back towards the Mini-Van. Tellingly, some of the Mini-Van's occupants -- TWO JW ELDERS and their families -- STUPIDLY became noticeably animated as soon as they topped the hill and saw RS's automobile coming towards them, and then even MORE STUPIDLY quickly changed to "stone-faced statues" as the two vehicles met and passed. Apparently, whatever information this vanload of JWs was attempting to obtain was worth the "anathema" of their being late for the start of the Sunday meeting.

Try to convince RS that the WatchTower Society is not a dangerous, privacy-violating, stalking, surveilling CULT!!!Again, it has been 18 YEARS since RS last set foot inside that local Kingdom Hall. All local citizens who care to know, including JWs, have known for NINE to ELEVEN YEARS that RS has disavowed the WatchTower Cult and attends other churches. So then, after all these years -- and even more SIGNIFICANTLY -- YEARS after all lines of communication have been closed, for what reason would the local Jehovah's Witnesses STILL be "stalking" and "surveilling" RS unless the WatchTower Society itself is maintaining ILLEGAL FILES of "dissidents" -- SECRET FILES which contain those individuals' personal and confidential information -- which require regular updates from local JW Elders??? For what WatchTower Cult purpose or purposes are those files maintained with so much effort and difficulty -- not to mention the exposing of those local "stalking" and"surveilling" Jehovah's Witnesses to eventual physical retribution???

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In her autobiography, Awakening Of A Jehovah's Witness, Diane Wilson repeated an "experience" that she had heard told at a local XJW support group meeting by another JW Wife who, at the time, also was still in the process of exiting out of the WatchTower Cult. That JW Wife related that her JW Husband and she had decided to attend a local church service to "see what going to a church was like before they decided to leave the organization". However, they were extremely apprehensive about doing such since they lived next door to one of their Congregation's Elders. Eventually, they put aside their "paranoia", and decided that they would go ahead and attend a local church service. Unbelievably, on the drive there, they eventually began to notice that a car following behind them was turning every time that they turned. As they turned into the church's parking lot, the car behind them began flashing its headlights. Sure enough, it was their JW Elder neighbor, who angrily shook his fist at them, and began shouting, "I see you! I see you!" as he drove past.

Deciding to attend a meeting of a support group made up of former Jehovah's Witnesses had been no easy task for this wife of an active Jehovah's Witness Elder. Wilson explains, "I felt apprehensive about attending its meetings. If the organization knew of the existence of this group, the real possibility existed of their sending a spy to the group meetings ... . I knew this was a genuine risk ... . ... To protect myself from being "turned in" ... , I remained anonymous to the group; I didn't tell them my name, where I lived, or to what congregation I had belonged."

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In his autobiographical book, Jehovah's Witnesses and the Hour of Darkness, former Jehovah's Witness Darek Barefoot relates that during the months leading up to the disfellowshipping of himself, his brother, and both their wives, during which Barefoot was accumulating a large amount of research relating to subliminal images occurring within WatchTower publications, and during which Barefoot was anonymously submitting his findings to WatchTower HQ, that one of Barefoot's Jehovah's Witness EmployeesSEARCHED Barefoot's private business office, STOLE some of Barefoot's private correspondence, and FORWARDED that stolen correspondence to both Barefoot's local BOE and to the BOE at the southern California congregation from which Barefoot had recently relocated.

In his book, written only shortly thereafter, Barefoot speculates that the SEARCH and THEFT was triggered when the JW Employee accidentally viewed some of Barefoot's research which Barefoot had carelessly left viewable in his business office. It is not known how Barefoot arrived at that speculation. Possibly, that was what Barefoot was told during his judicial proceedings. However, given Barefoot's 6-7 years of occasionally discussing the topic of his research with JW family members and others, and given his then recent anonymous submission of that research to WatchTower HQ, we would not discard the better speculation that Barefoot's JW Employee had been instructed to search Barefoot's business office and steal whatever incriminating materials that could be found. And, if that JW Employee saw fit to mail those materials to a BOE in California, then copies were likely also mailed to WatchTower HQ.

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Another former Jehovah's Witness Male submits a lengthy series of his own personal experiences as "evidence" that the WatchTower Society purposefully "tracks" and maintains records of former members whom the WatchTower Cult fears for whatever reasons; and that the WatchTower Cult secretly "employs" local Jehovah's Witnesses to "spy" on their fellow Jehovah's Witnesses. (Take a break before you start reading this submission.)

JWReseacher relates that his "exit" out of the WatchTower Cult began after performing his own research on WatchTower chronology, and then making the mistake of taking the advice of two Elders to submit his findings to the Writing Department at WatchTower Cult HQ. JWResearcher first received back from the Writing Department its nonsensical, non-answering form letter which it then mailed to most JWs making inquiries about the highly erroneous WatchTower chronology. JWResearcher followed with a second letter to the Writing Department which pointed out that their response had not even attempted to answer a single one of JWResearcher's questions. The Writing Department then communicated with JWResearcher's local Body Of Elders -- two of whom had been the ones to suggest to JWResearcher that he send his research to the Writing Department -- and directed the local BOE to open an investigation for APOSTASY against JWResearcher -- further informing the local BOE that JWResearcher was incapable of such research without the assistance of Raymond Franz and his apostate associates.

In fact, the highly intelligent and highly educated JWResearcher had performed all original research; had never read any so-called "apostate materials"; and only knew about Raymond Franz what had been published in WatchTower materials and the 1982TIME magazine article. JWResearcher was also sufficiently intelligent and sufficiently educated to prevent his being disfellowshipped for "apostasy" by the very Elders who now conveniently ignored the fact that they had been the ones who had encouraged JWResearcher to send his research and questions to WatchTower Cult HQ.

A few weeks after JWResearcher's second letter to the Writing Department, there was a knock at his door. There stood a non-relative Elder whom JWResearcher had known for more than 20 years, and whom JWResearcher had hosted overnight in his home, and whom had hosted JWResearcher overnight in his home. That JW "Judas" PRETENDED to be calling simply because he was himself interested in Bible chronology and he wanted to discuss more thoroughly JWResearcher's chronology research. JWResearcher discussed his research openly and fully with JWJudas despite the fact that it gradually became rather obvious that JWJudas had done no chronology research of his own. JWJudas switched back and forth from attempting to get JWResearcher to say something negative about the FDS, or the GB, or the Society, to questioning whether JWResearcher had obtained research help from Ray Franz, or other people whose names JWResearcher then did not even recognize.

Of course, anyone who has been through a WatchTower Cult Inquisition knows that a questioner does not have to say anything negative about the Society or its teachings to be disfellowshipped. All that it takes to be "burned at the stake" is to make the mistake of "questioning" the accuracy of any WatchTower teaching. A week or so later, TWO ELDERS -- "two" needed to make a disfellowshipping charge -- came calling. However, both the the Brooklyn Halfwits and the local half-wits continued to underestimate JWResearcher's exponential ability to "learn" within an active, evolving environment.

The TWO ELDERS -- JWJudas and another much older Elder -- initially acted as if they were there to deliver the Publisher's Clearinghouse Grand Prize to JWResearcher. Both were upbeat and initially talking about everything but the reason why they had come to JWResearcher's home that evening. After seating the TWO ELDERS in his living room, JWResearcher excused himself to relieve himself before they started their discussion. The TWO ELDERS evidently did not hear JWResearcher exit the bathroom, because as JWResearcher re-entered the living room from behind JWJudas, ELDER-B jumped and attempted to motion to JWJudas that JWResearcher was re-entering the room. JWJudas did not see ELDER-B, because JWJudas had BOTH of his hands down inside his large briefcase, which he had placed on the floor between his feet, fidgeting with something that appeared as if it required adjustment. When JWJudas finally looked up and saw JWResearcher, JWJudas too JUMPED and jerked both of his hands out of his briefcase -- without bringing anything out of the briefcase. For 2-3 minutes, the TWO ELDERS made small talk, before JWJudas -- with SLOWED and INCREASED VOLUME SPEECH -- "announced" that "we" needed to begin the recording, errrr ... meeting.

JWResearcher was 90% certain that JWJudas had either a tape recorder or a cellphone in his briefcase immediately after re-entering the living room. Now, JWJudas's change of speech pattern and volume only increased JWResearcher's certainty to 100%. Reading the handwriting on the wall that his two fellow JWs were there ONLY to screw him over, JWResearcher could barely maintain his composure. JWResearcher initially considered confronting the TWO ELDERS about their ILLEGALLY RECORDING JWResearcher in his own home, but since JWResearcher did not know whether the device in JWJudas's briefcase was a tape recorder or a cellphone miked into an off-site recorder (which thus could be denied), JWResearcher decided to "make lemonade" out of the "lemons" that had been handed to him.

By the end of that evening's meeting, JWResearcher had said every "correct" thing which JWResearcher could think of that needed to be said to keep JWResearcher from being charged with or declared "guilty" of "apostasy". When the TWO ELDER HALFWITS left JWResearcher's house that night, they did not have merely "NO EVIDENCE" to back up a charge of "apostasy", those two fools, and possibly multiple fools in Brooklyn, had an hour-long tape recording of JWResearcher's demonstration of christian humility, to go along with JWResearcher's unending praise and thankfulness for the "Governing Body" as Jehovah's chosen Representatives here on Earth. Just like the failed "Congressional Hearing" scene in THE GODFATHER, JWJudas left the room spitting nails, while JWJudas's senile accomplice followed behind JWJudas apologizing and muttering something to the effect that he didn't understand what had just happened here, but he certainly was going to try to find out.

SIDEBAR: Any person anywhere in the world who has a telephone conversation with their country's WatchTower Society Branch Office should automatically assume that their telephone conversation is being recorded. Laws regarding the secret recording of private telephone conversations vary widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and it would be the epitome of stupidity to think that the WatchTower Cult even cares what are the local laws. In 1982, two prominent native Irish JW Elders flew to NYC to speak "personally" with certain members of the "Governing Body" with whom they were either friends or acquaintances regarding the ongoing "schism" at WatchTower World HQ. Their multiple requests for such a face-to-face meeting with their "supposed" friends were denied. Lyman Swingle, then "Chairman of the Governing Body", acquiesced to accepting a telephone call from the two prominent Irish Elders, which lasted nearly 30 minutes. Six months later, a "Judicial Committee" headed up by the WatchTower Cult's Ireland Branch Coordinator was formed to "investigate" those two Irish Elders for alleged "apostasy". At that Hearing, when one of the Accused Irish Elders attempted to recall and relate to the members of the Judicial Committee the content of his 30 minute private telephone conversation with Lyman Swingle, the Ireland Branch Coordinator, Arthur Matthews, interrupted the Accused and informed him that the members of the Judicial Committee were already familiar with his telephone conversation with Lyman Swingle, because they had already LISTENED TO THE AUDIO TAPE -- which had been sent to Ireland HQ from WatchTower HQ in Brookyn. The naive Irish JW Elder was dumbfounded that not only had his private telephone conversation with a member of the"Governing Body" been SECRETLY RECORDED without his permission, but afterwards, a copy of that secretly recorded private telephone conversation had been distributed internationally for the perusal of persons who had nothing whatsoever to do with that private conversation.

Unable to "disfellowship" JWResearcher, the WatchTower Gestapo used the local Body of Nazis to cause JWResearcher's multi-generation JW Family to turn against him. Eventually, life became so miserable that JWResearcher decided to relocate away from all his fair-weather friends and family. JWResearcher managed to obtain employment in another state more than several hundreds of miles away. At that location, a few months later, JWResearcher was watching a football game on television one Sunday afternoon when a minivan unexpectedly pulled up in front of his subdivision rental home and stopped. JWResearcher glanced out his front window as a pack of loud-mouthed ruffians with bookbags all piled out of the stopped minivan. JWReseacher debated whether to ignore their knock, answer their knock with disinterest, or have some fun with these JWs who JWResearcher assumed did not have a clue that a disgruntled, inactive JW lived in that home. JWResearcher decided that he would answer his door and simply let the situation dictate his response. JWResearcher watched and waited as the JWs spread out to take the doors of his nearby neighbors. As the JWs returned and milled around outside the minivan, JWResearcher watched as the JWs repeatedly look at his door without any of them attempting to approach his door. The JWs eventually loaded up and drove on down the road to the next cluster of homes. JWResearcher could not help but wonder whether the local JWs knew who was now living at this location, or whether the previous tenant simply had been a "do-not-call", or whether the JW half-wits had simply missed his door.

JWResearcher believes that he had his question answered only a few months later after he was relocated to another jobsite nearly 1000 miles and several states away. Once again, one weekend shortly after relocating to that small city, JWResearcher was sitting in his new apartment watching television when he heard a pack of loud-mouths enter his apartment building and begin POUNDING the doors of his neighbors. JWResearcher's apartment was one of two doors closest to the entrance. The obnoxious JWs knocked all three other doors on the first floor before than proceeding to the upper floors of the apartment building. The JWs eventually left -- once again failing to knock at the door of JWResearcher.

Some readers will no doubt call it coincidence, but JWResearcher has no doubt given the aforementioned circumstances, as well as many, many other things which JWResearcher will not disclose, that the local covens of Jehovah's Witnesses were notified of his recent presence in each of those two small cities by a secret office at WatchTower Cult HQ which is charged with collecting, maintaining, and disseminating information on dissidents whom the WatchTower Cult fears.

SIDEBAR: International governments, law enforcement agencies, and human rights groups should know that it is a FACT that WatchTower International HQ has ordered its local Jehovah's Witness Congregations to maintain an annually updated RECORD of ALL FORMER MEMBERS who live within a Congregation's territory. Congregation Body Of Elders have been ordered to "consider" the content of that FORMER MEMBERS ROLL"once a year". WatchTower HQ further orders, "If any [Jehovah's] Witness, in the house-to-house preaching or in any other way, learns of a disfellowshipped person living in the territory, he should give that information to the Elders." At a minimum, this WatchTower HQ Directive means that at any given time, WatchTower HQ has immediate telephone access to the names and residential addresses of nearly ALL FORMER MEMBERS across the planet. Who knows what other personal-private-confidential information belonging to former members that BOEs have been privately instructed by WatchTower HQ to acquire and record. How does anyone know that that same personal-private-confidential information is not also automatically forwarded to WatchTower HQ, instead of only being maintained locally?

JWResearcher further relates that he eventually relocated back to his home area -- where he lived quietly by himself and generally avoided relatives who were active Jehovah's Witnesses. Then, one winter night, there was a knock at JWResearcher's door. JWResearcher was surprised to find a JW Nephew, who lived over in an adjacent county. JWNephew held up a six-pack of beer and declared that he had come to watch a televised ballgame that he was certain that JWResearcher had been planning to watch.

JWResearcher was surprised for a number of reasons. JWNephew was an active Jehovah's Witness, who knew that JWResearcher was "inactive", "marked", and being "shunned". JWNephew was less than half JWResearcher's age, and due to a multitude of reasons, JWResearcher had rarely if ever socialized with JWNephew's JW Parents, much less JWNephew during JWNephew's short lifetime, and there had been no recent contact with JWNephew or his JW Parents which would initiate this visit by JWNephew. Curiously, JWNephew was a newlywed, and JWNephew claimed to have left his new teenage "green card" JW Wife by herself at their isolated, rural home. JWResearcher had not even been invited to their Kingdom Hall wedding -- which the JW Couple had been privileged with after lying to the JW Elders during the routine questioning about any premarital sex.(Disclosed by JWNephew after his 4th beer.) Now, out of nowhere, JWNephew shows up on JWResearcher's doorstep -- with alcohol -- wanting to spend an evening watching sports????

After downing only one beer, the older JWResearcher typically had to excuse himself to go use the bathroom. As JWResearcher started to reenter his carpeted living room -- with the television blasting the ballgame -- JWResearcher was startled to see that the recliner previously occupied by JWNephew was empty. JWResearcher stopped and peeped around the corner of the doorway and observed JWNephew standing over at JWResearcher's computer desk and leafing through a tall stack of unorganized miscellaneous private documents, which included materials which JWResearcher would not want anyone else to view -- including a plethora of internet usernames and passwords. JWResearcher watched as his unaware JWNephew stopped and visually scanned document after document. Once JWResearcher retained no lingering doubts as to the purpose of JWNephew's "surprise visit"to his home, JWResearcher quietly backed away from the doorway and made some noise before rejoining the now reclining JWNephew in the living room. JWResearcher had watched a sufficient number of "spy" movies and television programs to immediately realize that instead of getting mad and kicking JWNephew's arse, that he should "use" his IDIOT JWNephew for his own entertainment and counter-espionage purposes. JWResearcher decided to invite JWNephew to return to watch another ballgame next week. However, even before JWResearcher could do so, the bold JWNephew invited himself back the next week to watch an advertised ballgame.

This time, JWResearcher was prepared for JWNephew's ILLEGAL SEARCH of his private documents -- or so JWResearcher thought. JWResearcher "scrubbed" his computer desk and its contents, as well as the rest of the living room. Removed materials were replaced with "junk" materials to make sure JWNephew could not discern a change in the quantity of documents on the computer desk. JWResearcher then "fabricated" some materials which JWResearcher KNEW would capture JWNephew's interest, and those were placed only a short distance down inside the closest accessible stack. All of the stacks were "marked" to disclose any tampering. JWResearcher orchestrated everything such that he did not have to return early to the living room from the bathroom and take the chance of scaring JWNephew away from his SPYING or even his getting caught watching JWNephew's SNOOPING.

However, JWResearcher eventually began to doubt that his IDIOT JWNephew even would show up for a second visit to ILLEGALLY SEARCH his home after JWNephew had had a few days to think over what "someone" obviously had talked him into doing. (It was a few more years before it eventually dawned on JWResearcher that every Jehovah's Witness in the world thinks that they are the smartest and sharpest person on the planet, and that all of their enemies are fools.)Once again, JWResearcher had overestimated the "christianity" of a Jehovah's Witness, and underestimated the "satanism" of a JW. JWNephew showed!!! This time, JWResearcher held his bathroom break until halftime, and even suggested that JWNephew precede his own planned 20 minute occupancy. As JWResearcher "sat", JWResearcher could only anxiously wonder if JWNephew had fallen for his scheme due to the halftime show blaring from the television. Then, about 15 minutes into his lengthy absence, JWResearcher could tell that JWNephew had begun walking about his house. JWNephew even walked past the bathroom and entered JWResearcher's darkened bedroom. Unfortunately, JWResearcher had placed some of the materials removed from the computer desk on a table in that bedroom. JWResearcher suddenly thought to flush the commode, which sent JWNephew scampering back to the living room.

JWResearcher did not even have to wait for JWNephew to leave to know that JWNephew had again pilfered through the private papers on his computer desk. The top pages of several stacks had been moved -- including the closest stack which contained the fabricated "interesting" materials. After JWNephew left, JWResearcher discovered that two of the fabricated "interesting" documents were missing. JWResearcher did not invite JWNephew back for a third ballgame, and JWNephew left without inviting himself back. Apparently, JWNephew had seen what he had come to see, and he had STOLEN what he "thought" he was after. That was years ago, and JWNephew has never returned to "watch another ballgame", or to repay the $20.00 bill that he asked to borrow from JWResearcher before he left. Apparently, the now "alcoholic" JWNephew is too busy attending Kingdom Hall meetings and WatchTower assemblies and conventions -- that is, when he is not "attending" bars and strip clubs, and going to Mardi Gras, instead of attending the business convention that he told his naive, half-witted JW Wife that he and a co-worker were driving to Mississippi, or was it Alabama. JWNephew also is partial to the sound of "Amazing Grace" played outside on the bagpipes -- enough so to find, hire, and pay for such -- although he has no clue what is "amazing grace", because he was reared as a JW.

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BETTE VAULS v. NICK G. LAMBROS, JACK R. GERMROTH, and ARTHUR E. KIRKPATRICK was a 1985-89 Maryland civil court case filed against three individual "Elders" at the Baltimore, Maryland area Rosedale Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, accusing them of "Invasion of Privacy" and "Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress". The plaintiff, Bette Vauls, had been disfellowshipped in November 1983 -- allegedly on trumped-up charges -- by those Jehovah's Witness Elders, whom Bette Vauls alleged had for several years had it out for all three members of the Vauls Family --- Bette Vauls, her husband John Vauls, and their daughter Kathy Vauls. Most of the "problems" between the Vauls Family and their Congregation's Body Of Elders stemmed from repeated, ongoing "issues" with their "troubled" teenage daughter, Kathy Vauls, dating all the way back to 1976. It was not until 1979 -- after three years of discord between the Vauls Family and the BOE -- that Kathy Vauls revealed that she had been sexually assaulted in 1976, when she was only 14 years-old, by a 27 year-old Ministerial Servant for whom she had been babysitting.

The discord between the Vauls Family and the BOE only increased in 1979 after the Judicial Committee which investigated and ruled on the sexual assault of Kathy Vauls decided that the 14 year-old VICTIM had been as much to blame for her "rape" as had been the Ministerial Servant whom "raped her". The Judicial Committee reportedly even "publicly reproved" Kathy Vauls, while merely "privately reproving" the still unidentified Ministerial Servant. TYPICALLY, on top of all that, the "rape" was CONCEALED from the authorities.

In this lawsuit, Bette Vauls alleged that in Nick Lambros' attempt to gather "evidence" on which to disfellowship her, "in 1979 and 1980 [Elder Nick Lambros] began following her in his car". Vauls further alleged that during 1982 and 1983 that "the unauthorized surveillance continued, including several occasions when [Elder Nick Lambros] parked outside her residence and 'watched the house'. On one such occasion ... he 'gave her the finger'."

Vauls also claimed that Nick Lambros came to her home in 1982 and accused Vauls of having "slandered" (a disfellowshipping offense) a fellow member of the Congregation. According to Vauls, Lambros told her that he had ordered a fellow female congregant of Vauls -- named Rossini -- to secretly tape record telephone conversations between Rossini and Vauls, and to then turnover those secretly recorded tapes to Lambros. It was in one of those conversations that Vauls supposedly slandered another member of the Congregation. That illegally obtained "evidence" allegedly was used against Vauls by the BOE during the disfellowshipping investigation and trial.

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In his book, In Search of Christian Freedom, onetime WatchTower Society Governing Body member, Raymond Franz, related that after he had been disfellowshipped that he had been contacted by literally hundreds of disaffected current and former Jehovah's Witnesses seeking his advice and counsel. Franz noted the "intimidation" and "fear" felt by many of those Jehovah's Witnesses who knew for a fact that the WatchTower Cult was a "police state", which absolutely has its own "spy network":

I have ... [communicated] ... with people even taking out special post office boxes in order to correspond, all the while using a pseudonym to protect their identity. One young man, who said his father was a prominent elder, phoned me and had only spoken a sentence or two when he asked, "You're not TAPING this conversation, are you?" I assured him that I did not do that. He continued, "You don't have computer equipment to trace my number?" ... He said he was sure I realized what a risk he was taking in phoning me and that if his wife came in he would have to hang up immediately. Not long into the conversation he did bring it to a quick close. The next day he phoned again and said, "I guess I sounded a bit paranoid." I replied, "Yes, you did, but I understand why."He has communicated over a period of many months and I still do not know his name ... .

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A now former Jehovah's Witness submits this real-life scenario which involves alleged breach of confidentiality and retaliation by a United States Postal Service mail carrier. Tipster relates that the involved time period was the early 2000s when Tipster was going through the typical withdrawal pains of someone who personally chooses to gradually exit the WatchTower Cult as that person slowly and gradually discerns the many sins and fallacies of the WatchTower Cult (as opposed to those XJWs who first get kicked-out of the Cult for moral delinquency and thereafter discover the Cult's faults). As part of their gradual "exit", Tipster found it advantageous to relocate to a small mid-western town where they were completely unknown as one of Jehovah's Witnesses by either local JWs or non-JWs. During this merely "inactive" period in their life, Tipster began to further question their long-held WatchTower Cult beliefs and practices, and began searching the internet for answers. After a few months of ordering confidentially packaged materials from a variety of counter-WatchTower ministries, and exchanging emails with the operators of others, InactiveJW became somewhat concerned when they found themselves unwantedly being placed on mailing lists and receiving additional unsolicited envelopes and materials which contained identifying words, logos, and "return addresses" which any active Jehovah's Witness could easily identify as "apostate" or "anti-watchtower". InactiveJW eventually dismissed their initial worries given that noone in the new locale knew them as one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

InactiveJW relates that it was only after 2-3 of months of receiving the above described "apostate" or "anti-watchtower"materials and envelopes that InactiveJW noticed a drastic change in their mail delivery. Prior to then, for about 9-10 months, InactiveJW had never given their mail delivery a second thought. However, now, instead of their mail regularly being found in a neat stack in their mailbox, half or more of the time, their mail began to be found crammed into InactiveJW's mailbox in a twisted and bent mess which often left the envelopes and their contents damaged. Even then, InactiveJW simply assumed that the "experienced"USPS postal carrier had been replaced by a new hire. About a month or so later, it dawned on InactiveJW that they had not yet paid one or more of that month's routine bills. In fact, on checking their checkbook, InactiveJW discovered that two separate credit card payments had been missed. Fortunately, InactiveJW was a recycler, and was able to locate all of the old junk mail in a nearly date order recycling stack. InactiveJW found not only all of the missing bills, but other important mail, all individually tucked inside various pieces of open sided junk mail solicitations -- all appearing to have been purposefully placed where they would not have been found unless InactiveJW had turned every single page of every single piece of junk mail.

A few days later, InactiveJW was able to take a late lunch break and visit the local USPS branch office. After identifying themself and their address, InactiveJW first inquired whether there had been a change in mail carriers on his route in the past month or so. When the Postmaster indicated that there had been no change, InactiveJW startled the Postmaster by inquiring whether InactiveJW's USPS letter carrier was a "Jehovah's Witness". The Postmaster turned several different colors before regaining his composure and then asking why InactiveJW would ask such a question -- but then quickly cutoff InactiveJW before they could answer while stating that he (postmaster) had no idea regarding the mail carrier's religion, plus that he (postmaster) would not release such info even if he did know. Suspecting that the mission was 90% accomplished, InactiveJW did not go further into the religion issue, but rather explained the problems with several unpaid bills due to several recent "lost" bills and other important mail which "appeared" to be INTENTIONALLY scattered and hidden amongst routinely disposed junk mail. Notably, InactiveJW's mail delivery returned to normal after that single visit with the Postmaster.

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In his book, Jehovah's Witnesses and the Problem of Mental Illness, clinical psychologist Dr. Gerald Bergman related that one of his Jehovah's Witness "Elderette" Patients was so "paranoid" that her JW Elder husband was cheating on her that she continuously reported "evidence" of such to the other Elders in their Congregation. Bergman reported that, "In response to her complaints, the other Elders spent some time clandestinely following [their fellow Elder] around ... ."

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In her autobiography, Awakening Of A Jehovah's Witness, Diane Wilson related that shortly after she had stopped attending meetings and stopped going out in field service that her Congregation's Body of Elders had held a secret BOE meeting which had excluded her own JW Elder Husband. The purpose of that meeting? The BOE met to discuss the Wilsons, and decided to place under SURVEILLANCE Diane's unwaveringly loyal JW Elder Husband in order to see if he was doing anything about which they felt the BOE should know. Diane's husband was never disloyal to the Cult; did not follow Diane out of the Cult; and never gave his fellow JW Elders any reason to question his loyalty. Apparently, SURVEILLANCE of members, even fellow Elders, in the WatchTower Cult, is a common and easily decided matter.

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WATCHTOWER CULT COUNTER-ESPIONAGE

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THE 12 SPIES OF MOSES

Genuine XJW activists, have you never wondered why the vast majority of forecasted "guaranteed victories" against the Cult which included significant assistance from XJW activists turned out to be a marginal victory at best -- if not a loss? Have you never wondered why certain "assured situations" produced and managed by XJW activists turned out as if the Cult had been secretly listening to what was going on behind the scenes? Have you never wondered why questionable if not doubtful copyright violations are routinely removed by Cult Legal, when other undoubtedly and unquestionably ongoing copyright violations go unbothered? Have you never wondered why easily terminated and/or easily bankrupted host websites of regular copyright violations are permitted to exist for years? Have you never wondered why OUR SISTER WEBSITES, which are the BEST SOURCES EVER for WatchTower Cult hidden history, are quietly blackballed behind the scenes by some prominent "apostates" and their "teams" of***sycophants -- including what has become the XJW community's most popular website. Such is no surprise to us, since we have long known that the WatchTower Cult itself has controlled the XJW community for decades. (***Many such XJW sycophants could care less since their "leader" supports those suckup-ophants' own deviant lifestyle and satanic goals. Other XJW sycophants are simply FOOLS -- too ignorant and too unintelligent to understand what is occurring.)

Approximately two decades ago, during a S.A.D., this Editor, who was then a hard-nosed ***"koolaid-drinker"***,but who had no assigned duties at that S.A.D., was specifically tracked down out of the audience and asked to personally take care of the "security" situation at an entrance where it was feared that outside "apostate" protesters were going to attempt to enter the Assembly Hall. Of course, nothing happened. Those "apostates" protested peacefully, legally, and apparently successfully. Thereafter, during a conversation with an "Anointed Elder" regarding that "security" situation, this Editor brought up their own personal concerns to that AnointedElder regarding the Society's seeming inattention to the activities of "apostates" in general. AnointedElder showed no sign of concern whatsoever regarding this Editor's concerns, and when I persisted, AnointedElder told me to relax and that he would share something with me that I could never disclose to anyone. (***In 1995, at the WatchTower District Convention, while the Sunday afternoon closing talk was ongoing, this Editor stood up, chewed out, and shamed portions of two upper arena sections for talking, making noise, and generally disrespecting the Governing Body Member who was delivering that talk; and no, I was not an "Attendant".)

AnointedElder declared that the Governing Body looked to the Bible for direction for everything that it did as "Jehovah's organization" -- including how it dealt with "apostates" and other opposers. AnointedElder asked me if I did not recall how Jehovah had directed both Moses and Joshua to use MULTIPLE EMBEDDED INFILTRATORS to SPY on "Jehovah's enemies". Further pointing out that Joseph, Daniel, and other faithful servants of Jehovah had been placed in high positions of responsibility within governments opposed to Jehovah and His people, AnointedElder then went on to allege that the Society not only had been INFILTRATING various "apostate" groups FOR DECADES, but even alleged that the Society had managed to maneuver (how?) some of those INFILTRATORS into LEADERSHIP POSITIONS within some "apostate" groups. (How would a new "apostate" spy QUICKLY gain the trust of the XJW community, and how would a new "apostate" spy QUICKLY ascend to prominence within the XJW community -- besides their being endorsed by already imbedded prominent "apostate" spies and their teams of online half-wit sycophants?) AnointedElder alleged that through those PROMINENT APOSTATE LEADERS that the Society manipulated, if not controlled, much of the agenda and activities of its' "apostate" opposers. AnointedElder further explained that if any one of us individual JWs outside of HQ were to interfere with an "apostate" group's activities, then we very well might be unwittingly interfering with or even countering one of the Society's own schemes.

SIDEBAR: Only one year after Charles Taze Russell had put down the 1894 WatchTower Headquarters Rebellion, "Pastor" Russell was faced with an EVEN MORE SIGNIFICANT AND DANGEROUS SCHISM -- INTERESTINGLY, although well documented, and thus easily discovered "schism", a schism whichhas received ZERO COVERAGE from the decades-long train of supposed "apostate" WatchTower historians -- alive and dead -- on whom the "apostate" community has relied without question to keep "apostates" informed about all of the WatchTower Cult's secret baggage. WHY?Continue reading to discover the HIGHLIGHT of that schism which the WatchTower Society had every reason to make absolutely certain was kept a SECRET from its' "apostate" opposers for as long as possible. Give 'em a dime, and hope that pacifies them sufficiently to keep them from looking for the dollar that is left hidden.

In 1892, "Pastor" Russell's personal secretary, Ullysses Morrow, had left the Watch Tower Society due to doctrinal differences, and had founded in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, a second "Second Adventist" magazine named THE HERALD OF GLAD TIDINGS. In early 1895, Ullysses Morrow became a follower of Cyrus Teed and his Koreshan Unity cult. By Spring 1895, Morrow was spreading Cyrus Teed's teachings amongst the growing crowd of former Russellites living in and around Pittsburgh. (Notably, just like Charles Taze Russell, Cyrus Teed claimed to be a successor to William Miller, rather than a follower.)

By Summer 1895, Teed and Morrow were openly challenging "Pastor" Russell and his teachings in the Pittsburgh newspapers. Russell initially ignored attempts by the Pittsburgh newspapers to draw him into the fray. However, after Teed and Morrow began having some success in drawing active Russellites to their meetings, "Pastor" Russell evidently decided that he needed to "infiltrate" his up-until-then insignificant competition, so as to gain accurate inside "intelligence".

Russell's chosen SPY easily infiltrated the welcoming group of former Russellites. However, Russell and his INFILTRATOR made an easy mistake -- a mistake which likely has been long remembered at WatchTower HQ. Russell and his INFILTRATOR over did it. Within only a matter of weeks, Russell's INFILTRATOR seemingly had done such a good job of infiltrating the group, including endearing themselve to the local cultists, and gaining their trust, that when the Koreshan Unity cult decided to legally incorporate its' Pittsburgh Branch in June 1895, Russell's INFILTRATOR was elected corporate "PRESIDENT".

That organizational meeting had occurred on a Sunday. On Monday, one of the ELDERS in Russell's Allegheny congregation, whom also was a prominent Pittsburgh businessman, learned that local newspapers were reporting that his WIFE was now "President" of the Pittsburgh branch of Koreshan Unity, which was targeting for its own membership followers of the Watch Tower Society. Probably at Russell's insistence, Husband hurried to the newspapers and attempted "damage control". Husband told the Pittsburgh newspapers that his WIFE had attended only four Koreshan Unity meetings; that she had done so merely as an "investigator"; and that she had not even been present at the organizational meeting where she had been elected "President" without her knowledge or consent. Husband further related that his WIFE denied any connection whatsoever to the Koreshan Unity, and that she totally repudiated Cyrus Teed and his teachings.

Russell's fumbled attempt to secretly infiltrate the local branch of the Koreshan Unity only lent credibility to the cult amongst his own followers. By September 1895, as many as six dozen former and current Russellites were attending local meetings of the Koreshan Unity. That included at least two prominent Bethelites -- James and Elizabeth Weimar -- whom Russell promptly disfellowshipped. (Notably, the Weimars had played a leading role in helping Russell to crush the 1894 WatchTower HQ Rebellion.)

Given that that was the 1890s, it is especially interesting that Russell decided on a FEMALE as the person best suited for the job of infiltrating, deceiving, and spying on the very people whom best knew the internal workings of Russell and his cult. (See Page 2 of this section for instances where Charles Taze Russell used MALE spies and infiltrators on outside targets.)

In the latter 1990s, not long after this Editor exited the Cult, a prominent XJW oldtimer cautioned this Editor about communicating personal/private information to other XJWs -- even prominent XJWs with unquestionable credentials and track record. XJW oldtimer never mentioned that the XJW community might have been infiltrated by HQ's SPIES, but given what I had been told by AnointedElder only a few years earlier, it was obvious to me what was occurring when XJW oldtimer warned me that"everything of significance" within the XJW community seemed to somehow find its way back to WatchTower HQ.

Of course, that was pre-internet times. Now, the internet is the Society's biggest enemy -- or is it? How difficult is it to adapt strategies, tactics, and plans to the now more dispersed individual "apostates" and the fewer and smaller organized "apostate" groups? Some "things" may be more difficult, while other "things" may even be easier. In fact, nothing has done a better job for the Society of culling "undesirables" from its membership than the internet -- with those "culls" thereafter being used as easily-manipulated "tools" by the Cult's infiltrators. (The primary, longterm function of these super-intelligent infiltrators is the collecting and reporting of information helpful to the Cult. Misdirection, disruption, and erosion of the Cult's opposition are merely opportunistic, ancillary activities, which these infiltrators would never intentionally allow singularly or cumulatively to "blow their cover".)The Society's recent full embrace of the internet proves that the Society has secretly long considered the internet to be a "blessing" -- despite how the internet will continue to occasionally be portrayed to the rank-n-file.

Three guesses as to which demographic group of XJWs that Cult HQ has most successfully "used" for its own purposes for decades. It's the same morally-deficient demographic group that is infamous for having been successfully exploited for centuries by government spy agencies. (Do you recall being shocked nearly a decade ago, when for promotional purposes, Cult HQ made the mis-step of openly working hand-in-hand with persons of that demographic group whom even had past JW ties??? The Cult temporarily allowed its guard to drop in that too-public instance because working with former JWs of that demographic group had become routine after decades of having done so behind the scenes.)Has the XJW community never stopped to wonder why XJWs of that demographic group waste even one second of their future fighting against the Cult after their forced exit? The Cult is NEVER going to accept them back. No subgroup of XJWs have a clearer path to a Cult-free future than persons of that demographic group. Forget JWs. Move on. No, XJWs of that demographic group simply take up another "cause" -- forcing the acceptance of their deviant lifestyle down the throats of other XJWs. If XJWs will watch closely, they will see that many of the "back-stabbing bitches" whom make up that demographic group spend more time fighting against XJWs not accepting of their lifestyle than they do fighting against the Cult itself. XJWs of that demographic group do not merely sew seeds of discord within the general XJW community. No, they have erected a barrier separating those XJWs not accepting of their deviant lifestyle from XJWs who are accepting of their deviant lifestyle. Pick a side, and if you dare pick the wrong side, there will be hell to pay. Who do XJWs suppose benefits from this fracturing of the XJW community? Who do XJWs think are the "handlers" of these "tools"?

Lastly, I find it unbelievable that this next point should even have to be made to intelligent, educated people in 2017. Three guesses as to which type of specialized XJW website that Cult HQ and its infiltrators are most thankful for making their job of monitoring the XJW community over the past 20 years simpler, easier, and more successful. It is these same specialized XJW websites which kowtow to the aforementioned morally-deficient demographic group which tolerates no person whom is unaccepting of their deviant lifestyle. These specialized XJW websites are the ones where innocent and naive first-time JW questioners of Cult teachings and practices quickly run headfirst into the very "god-hating" "moral degenerates" whom the Cult has long warned its' JW members make up the world of former Jehovah's Witnesses.

It is some of these same constantly-online, god-denying moral degenerates whom send first-time JW questioners scampering back to "mother" whom have the temerity to continuously condemn Convention and Kingdom Hall protesting for supposedly feeding the paranoia of active Jehovah's Witnesses. Ever wonder why certain constantly-online "apostates" continuously discourage those anti-WatchTower "warriors" who have the courage to protest at conventions and Kingdom Halls when many of us still recall the first protest message that we ever saw: 1-800-WHY-1914?

XJWs who publicly condemn protesters are either FOOLS or cult spies and their halfwit sycophants. Even those protesters whom do things which we don't approve (commit felonies - minor misdemeanors okay), at a minimum, burst the psychological bubble of invincibility which surrounds JW attendees -- especially the elders and ministerial servants, and their "royal" families. Claiming that such protesters even have an overall "positive" effect on JW attendees is simply ignorant, stupid, or probably something worse.

Ever wonder why some online "apostates" continuously waste people's internet time with half-witted nonsense about "beards" or the lack of "windows" in KHs, or other obvious low-IQ nonsense? Ever wonder why there are literally dozens if not hundreds of poorly edited opposition websites clogging up GOOGLE that accomplish nothing but wasting researchers' time by doing nothing more than duplicating the EXACT SAME CONTENT of other opposition websites? All of this is a drip-drip-drip against the XJW movement by cult infiltrators and their halfwit sycophants.

In November 2017, a "thread" posted on what is now the largest EXJW discussion forum (EXJW-SODOMITES.COM) perfectly illustrates our point. A thread was started to notify readers about the WatchTower Cult's annual recruitment in Canada and the USA of Jewish speaking JWs who can ILLEGALLY travel to Israel in February - March 2018 to serve as ILLEGAL proselytizers. One poster took the time to find what was likely an ultra-orthodox Jewish organization located in Israel to whom could be forwarded notification and proof of the WatchTower Cult's ILLEGAL proselytizing campaign. Quickly, a probable SODOMITE poster quashed that idea because Sodomite Poster believed the suggested ultra-orthodox Jewish organization located in Israel was "fundamentalist" and "extremist" -- specifically, the Israeli group was ANTI-SODOMITE. SODOMITE POSTER instead recommended the contacting of a Jewish group located in Los Angeles. Just as quickly, the previous poster DELETED their post and "idea", while "thanking" the FOOL for "its" great advice. No other reader on that large forum had the guts to speak up about this absurdity!!! Who cares if the Israeli group is ANTI-SODOMITE? The suggestion to "sic" that Israeli group onto the WatchTower Cult and its illegal missionaries has NOTHING to do with how that Israeli group feels about Sodomites. This is a perfect example of EXJW Sodomites not only choosing pro-sodomite activism over anti-WatchTower activism, but essentially stopping anti-WatchTower activism in favor of pro-sodomite activism. That very same EXJW discussion forum blackballs our two websites because of our position that EXJW Sodomites should keep separate their campaign against the WatchTower Cult and their pro-sodomites campaign -- or, simply move on with their immoral, deviant lives.

These specialized XJW websites are not only used by Cult HQ, but are and have been since their inception both monitored and infiltrated by both American and international law enforcement agencies, as well as by American and international non-governmental Human Rights organizations which have both used and supported the WatchTower Cult for decades. Simply take a look at April 2017 postings. Even prior to April 2017, we regularly spotted NGO infiltrators on these specialized XJW websites by watching for them to post and promote "talking points" from recent NGO mailings. One NGO in particular has inserted agents -- both former JWs and never-were JWs -- inside the activist XJW community to make certain that its own agents control the direction of the XJW community, including but not limited to, countering as much as possible any effort by XJWs to reverse themselves on their previous anti-American Flag and anti-National Anthem positions. That NGO, which has a foot planted in each camp, cares nothing about JWs nor XJWs. It cares only about how it can use both JWs and EXJWs to meet its own anti-American goals of stomping out the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance and standing for the National Anthem. (These JERKS current anti-Pledge, anti-Flag, and anti-Anthem campaigns which attempt to equate civil rights protests with pissing on the Flag, Pledge, and Anthem should demonstrate to EXJWs to what lengths these JERKS will go to -- and have gone to for decades. These issues may seem relatively inconsequential to most of us, even former JWs, but to these JERKS, the 100 year anniversary of their ongoing fight is almost here. See LINK posted above.)

Finally, anti-cult activists must understand the principals of "amputation" and "insurance", as applied to this topic, to understand this warning. It is ALWAYS better to go ahead and sacrifice a small "asset" of your own choosing when doing so will sustain assets of much greater quality and/or quantity. Is a current small loss worth the potential future gain --especially when the small loss is inevitable? It's simply a matter of weighing the values and weighing the odds. Spending a dime today beats spending a dollar next week.

For those whom still don't get it, a genuine lengthy track record of anti-cultism can be owned by an infiltrator as much as by a genuine XJW activist. Review their work. Are they regularly and continuously bringing something NEW to the fight, or do they decade-in and decade-out simply re-work, re-hash, and duplicate the same tired decades-old material, which they understand does not and never did accomplish anything of significance against the Cult? We can spot these people miles off. NGO agents can be spotted miles off. Law enforcement infiltrators can be spotted miles off. Wake up, folks!!!